Whoosh vs Weep - What's the difference?
whoosh | weep |
A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
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* "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." —Douglas Adams
To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
(obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
* Prior
As nouns the difference between whoosh and weep
is that whoosh is a breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed while weep is the lapwing; the wipe.As verbs the difference between whoosh and weep
is that whoosh is to make a breathy sound like a whoosh while weep is to cry; shed tears.As an interjection whoosh
is .whoosh
English
Noun
(es)- The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!”
Verb
(es)weep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.